The park was cool (but really hot in the direct sunlight), with a half completed play-building-ish thing (wooden jungle-gym but not a jungle-gym?) and no running water. A tiny stream runs behind the playground.

Rob and I saw some great instances of animal joy (stories of which shall henceforth be known as Tails of Grinnell), male bonding (threeguyswithfaces standing together watching a dog chase a ball into a lake), and a blue heronintimidatingtwo geese.

My apologies to all; the end of this is getting a bit rushed, but I’m getting a bit tired, and looking up all of these vaguely related links requires energy and focus which I seem to be lacking at this point.

But I will be back! Thanks for reading, if you’ve gotten this far!

Peace & Love & Grinnell.

Things to look forward to in future Hidden Gems of Grinnell posts:

More GrinnEscapades!

Tails of Grinnell, our Grinnell Dog/other Grinnell Animal chapter, which will include interviews with various animals, cute photos, and life stories.

Grincounters: meetings with the Grinnell-folk!

Grincidence: random Grinnell shit

All images courtesy of their respective photographers/the internet at large. I have no rights to them and should probs not be using them. Luckily the likelihood that someone will read this is small. But still, major creds for some fabulous graphics. Nice job, folks.